as the victims of a cia drone strike america representative behind. the. problems. the canadian face sets up the world's first digital currency a.t.m. doling out cash to bitcoins the cryptocurrency taking the online world by storm. and a red light to green energy in the u.k. the majority of the population down believing the benefits failed to outweigh the tax.

welcome to the program today. live in moscow with your top headlines this hour a justice seeking journey of thousands of miles for one pakistani family which survived a cia drone attack has now come been aided in their testimony in front of u.s. congressman but the strike killed a grandmother but failed to hit any militants so the victims of the bombing asking lawmakers why their home was targeted in the first place the briefing for us. this was the first time actual victims of u.s. drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of growth strikes so it's very difficult to expect the sudden change of heart even though hart was with these drone victims were appealing through an appeal with twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that

day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed while picking vegetables in the garden. i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when the skies are gray and for a short period of time the mental tension and fear eases but when this kind of run the drones return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life around here. he wished his children to be able to walk the streets not afraid of being bombed that any moment. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america i have no idea why our village in my house was targeted. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers to why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother was killed when the drone hate i was outside

with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but blood kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant to the lawyer of this family prominent practice any lawyer who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of for the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand vocalisation of. the music. the looting in a concentration camp where they're being picked on this is what kind of. if someone has long for someone driving. s.u.v.s but this is being targeted and at the same time to be in a position to leave the area the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there's a short chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears

but there is hope that the public will take notice in washington. i'm being one of the toughest opponents of america's drone warfare u.s. house of representatives member alan grayson he's the man behind the visit of the rockman family to his country speaking directly to r.t. he said he believes the pakistani army is now completely capable of handling all the militants itself. pakistan is the third largest recipient of military aid from the united states and year after year receives approximately a billion dollars in aid why do you ask yourself why are we doing this when there are alternative means that come nowhere close to doing this kind of harm to innocents and inflaming foreign public opinion for instance given the fact that we are giving a billion dollars a year to pakistan when we have the pakistani army arrest the one hundred or two hundred or even five hundred militants that we believe could possibly one day pose some kind of threat to the united states now what's good for america's foreign wars is also when it's crime fighting wish list at home

a sheriff in texas tough anti immigrant stance has not said that he also wants unmanned flying machines to get the lowdown on local crime scenes and to stop the flow of drugs coming into his state stories online for you right now as is this one right here. narrow escape route on the outskirts of moscow bailing out just in time for their experimental military helicopter as you can see it came crashing just outside a local mall moscow outscored forest details as well on our team. right now. but for the meantime on the program bitcoin the experimental online currency is now a global one complete with its own and so far only a.t.m. and the first machine has been set up in a cafe in vancouver where people can exchange digital money for physical cash but you're probably asking yourself well what exactly are bitcoins in the simplest terms it's just a currency but it's an on line one

a bit coins are stored in where wallets that are completely anonymous blocking even your name transactions are public and bitcoins can be sent from one wallet to get another wallet just the click of a button in most cases no fees or delays happening in fact the system actually bypasses banks middlemen and the governments as well what's more it can be easily sold for any available currency that includes dollars or even euro's for that matter the downside being though that exchange rates can be volatile and finally where do they come from the process is called bit coin mining and it consists of computers running special programs to generate a steady flow of currency and geoffrey albert tucker from the foundation for economic education he calls the currencies rise simply spectacular a year ago this time i thought it was an hour this is just another technology you know that come along every few days and they slam out so on

a fairly recent convert the more i look into it the more confident i will get in the future monetary system is crude cryptography and this kind of crypto market based currency it's quite spectacular and i tell you it only used a little it's a few times using very quickly realize this is incredibly easy it's much much easier and there's no danger of fraud or identity theft or all these other things that come with the old fashioned credit system it's just pure technology. and bitcoin exchanges and brokers have popped up all over the world even china's largest search engine even that's now accepting payments in the bit of going digital currency and we're also told it could turn into a major global player really it's funny that it to be an alternative currency and there's no reason why it can't itself become a means of account in the calculations so you can do your accounting then and people do this all the time you can enter into the big critic us here and live a wonderful life meaning that you can bypass government currency entirely which the

u.s. is now restricting what's called money exchange businesses so there's so much high costs associated with a.t.m.'s it doesn't surprise me that this started in canada rather than the u.s. the u.s. would lose out if it continues this trend where it's regulating cryptocurrency. maybe popular and in demand but bitcoin certainly has had more than its fair share of controversy and turbulence money laundering concerns and shady online activity has ever sent its price soaring collapsing and then recovering all over again the latest incident saw an f.b.i. raid on silk road it's an online narcotics marketplace that was dealing in bitcoins and mitchell demeter from the chaff bitcoin officer i should say at bitcoin e.-x. he spoke to my colleague kevin allen. we've got money laundering policy in place where we limit users to three thousand dollars per day every transaction you make is recorded on

a public ledger your name isn't it but if somebody wants to find out who is making that transaction it can be done the silk road is a perfect example of the shutting down the silk road and the black market e.-bay and actually shut down which is actually a very good thing for the currency as a whole as a lot of people associate it associated big going just directly with the silk road and so since it's been shut down the currency did dip about ten percent for both twelve hours and since then people realize that it's not just about the black market and it's actually a legitimate currency and it's actually gone up one hundred percent since then. they can find out much more and how it. has been such a nightmare to do so via the website auti dot com and coming up in the program still the. ban on big brother the bricks group of emerging economies say they don't want to be spied on by the u.s. plan to build

a new secure cyber space hit in the eyes of america. and the countdown entering the home stretch readiness boxes are being kicked off in the olympic city as clocks passed the one hundred day mark until the winter games opening ceremony. ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital britain may have a rethink on green energy since a survey claims two of its citizens are against propping up the noncompetitive industry and the so-called green levies make up a hefty part of average energy bills and the only predicted to snowball if indeed the u.k. proceeds with its program policies pony boy has the story from london now. talking about the weather may be a british foible but nowadays it can make or break a household budget when terror is setting in as our announcements that energy prices are set to rise yes again now roughly ten percent of the u.k.'s average

household energy bill is made up of so-called green taxes and the prime minister david cameron has pledged to do away with them in order to help out struggling brits now the ideas proved popular for a country battling with austerity according to a recent poll by savation some sixty percent of brits object to having to shell out for the green levies. but. you know about what it is cost to wait and see if it's way things cheaper things to do not prefer the profits an option really which is just terms that moyo be well spun will never see it might see bills come down to hear us rush out of the doubt opposition leader ed miliband says that green levy's aunt to blame for britain's high energy prices but the government figures show that green taxes are at one hundred twelve pounds to the average household energy bill in the u.k. now roughly half that money goes toward supporting cleaner greener energy such as

solar panels like the ones located on the roof of london's blackfriars train station but as the latest survey shows for the brits counting the pennies to keep warm this winter concern for the environment is going to have to come in second for now. r.t. london meanwhile germany's energy giant warned the country's swift switch to green power could backfire due to the prospect of blackouts and there are fears in that worst case scenario that a one hour blackout across the country could cost almost six hundred million euros and professor dr frank and dress from class the university of technology he believes that energy safety certainly comes at a very high cost. well there's one principle problem if you rely on wind to know the energy you have to be a real thank you for all the energy if the wind blows or if the sun shines if

there's not a case of an energy so if you have industry country which needs based a lot of energy you need a backup power plant so we haven't germany know the situation. more and more with more and more solar panels but they will never deliver you a stable energy and so we have. coal fired power plants and this will increase the cost. in germany as mentioned we have a situation that in principle nuclear power plants are forbidden so they're no longer accepted by the people and therefore this renewable energy is called renewable energies are regarded as without any alternative as germany charges back on its old energy industries are here at r.t. we traveled to the north of england to see what happened there and industrial towns were ultimately consigned to us. and still to come later in the program on that story we are meeting the locals who are fighting to peel back the rust and get the

former industrial heartland beating that once again. he turned his lover into an amazon. had been my dream for so long. but he couldn't hold on to their research the thing is growing and teacher and now she runs her own factory. down a challenge to me there's no alcohol or smoking and even coffee is forbidden they worship. will he be able to win a. man versus woman on r.t. . dramas that transfield ignored. stories others refused to notice. faces changed the

world lights never. told pictures of today's news. on demand from around the globe. up to. fifty. a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. armory sushi with you today at the head of u.s. intelligence james clapper has defended america's spying policy in front of a senate panel he said collecting and analyzing intentions of foreign leaders is indeed a major focus that's been his response to the flood of international outrage after the scope of u.s. surveillance activities worldwide was ultimately revealed meanwhile though one of america's spying targets that of brazil now calling for a new a secure cyberspace to be created to prevent u.s.

wiretapping and ideas receive the backing of the other brics nations russia india china and south africa all now considering laying down a vast network of data cables immune to any say snooping technology and this could be a great solution according to jeremy zimmerman is from the internet liberties and digital rights advocacy group so when the cable ends up in the us then n.s.a. as full access if the cable ends up somewhere else then it's yours to try to secure that access then of course there are the questions that those cables are used to make information transit the websites are set such as google or facebook all the web sites in which n.s.a. has full access it won't solve per se the question of privacy invasion on a massive scale by the n.s.a. i hope those governments along with laying down those new cables will for instance put back in the hands of their citizens ways of gaining back control of the technology with all the new cables in the world if people keep believing that they

can trust google facebook apple and microsoft then they will send all their lives to to the n.s.a. so of course it has to be a broader set of technological solutions and political solutions and also social solutions. the u.s. president even have control over the n.s.a. in fact who's been behind america's vast spying network in the first place some of the questions being discussed on. with. program his guests getting all riled up as usual eleven thirty g.m.t. is when you can watch it for now a preview of what jay carney the president spokesman said is you know the president knew nothing about it however the n.s.a. is doing a great job what they're doing anyway so it really does raise some very troubling issues does the president have control over the n.s.a. does seem though i mean even more seriously was this an operation approved under president george w. bush that's gone on and they've not bothered to inform the president the united

states is being run by remote control by a group of corrupt companies and these companies want the n.s.a. to find out secrets trade secrets from all the companies in the world this is this is what they're doing this is unacceptable the american people deserve a better government than this. and now two italian newspapers of also attempted to drag russia into the center of global spying scandals going to go to be investigating the claims the newspapers are alleging that their diplomats who were present at the g twenty summit which took place in petersburg just earlier this year have received a gift tax which included flashcards as well as phone chargers which allegedly could be used just by where now the spokesman for the russian president has already denied these allegations saying that he doesn't know what all the fuss is about and

that it does look like an attempt to sway the attention away from real problems to what you imagine everyone's because they're telling you super didn't particularly cite any sources of their information these allegations are also being investigated by the government itself in order to find out where exactly they're stemming from. all right let's get straight to it now as the wait for the start of the twenty fourteen saatchi winter olympics has now crossed the one hundred day mark of the games crocks both here in the russian capital and the host city have both been switched to counting down the home stretch reporting for us in sochi as artie's scott. the preparations are continuing we are the poor building here in sochi for the unveiling of the uniform that is going to be worn by the volunteers during the games it's a multi-faceted multi-colored designed to represent the eighty three regions of russia later on wednesday the international olympic committee to begin a two day conference a conference on sports on the environment is designed to raise awareness of green

issues and on tuesday the i.o.c. president of course tuesday the day that marks one hundred days until the start of the games had a tour of some of the venues in and around sochi to see how the preparations are coming along he visited the athletes' village the main media center on the fixed olympic stadium which is going to host the opening and closing ceremony and he says the venues are impressive and that he's confident that the athletes will be delighted with that. of course i know lympics can start with the traditional flame bring you the latest. so some of us actually carrying the famous olympic torch we've been carrying it many of us including many across the country carrying it through russia you can follow the long journey. torch is on a journey. one hundred twenty three days. through two. cities of russia. really. people

who are sixty thousand to live. in a record setting trip. there. a limp the torch relay. m r t r. r let's get some good news out of the u.k. now where the g.d.p. the measure of annual economic output has risen by almost eight percent but while some areas are getting back on their feet others particularly in the north have just had to all hold. on to find out what it will take to bring them back. once providing the life blood to the british economy now much of britain's industrial infrastructure lies in ruins. but whilst full industrial hubs like leeds and manchester have risen from the ashes many smaller northern towns and cities

have had a harder time reinventing themselves and a recent article in the economist magazine ticket one step further suggesting that rather than further investment in places like middlesbrough or burnley and whole decaying towns and cities should be left behind it's true that economically britain remains a deeply divided country but with all this talk of failing towns and cities we thought we'd come and speak to some of the people who actually live in them and find out what they have to say about it all and say we've come to the market town of burnley in lancashire in the north west of the country. so. people say about. burnley's friendly and. and good a football. needs help i'm going to leeds pub for a year. because i don't want to be year in my.

opinion might be to violate it but burnley which was recently named the most enterprising place in britain deserves that accolade says n.p. cotton but this is the university college. ten million program will. transform the. mill into of course of learning for future people. there are the studios in engineering and construction. there will be the young people of our future in the money for. this and do you think there's a lot a lot of all bills here are all the relevant to. moving in there when it's finished you would read over the fortunes of the berlin. the economist has publicly defended his article and despite millions in government spending for regeneration

projects and evident successes in across the northwest of the country unemployment has continued to rise despite falling marginally across the u.k. on paper to look at that banding some of these towns may carry some weight but try telling that to the people he's livelihoods and indeed lives centered around such town. people were connected to. this in my life my horde. r.t. reporting from burnley in the north west of england and straight to ankara to open up the r.t. world where protests erupted against the turkish conservative government on the country's republic day a riot police using tear gas and clashes with the demonstrators today marking the nation's nineteen and over. twin suicide attacks targeting soldiers and al-qaeda

militants have killed twelve in iraq on tuesday nineteen injured at the first explosion targeted. a sunni leader in northern baghdad second in most. blew up near a police checkpoint just this year alone more than seven thousand people have been killed in the violence. a second set of palestinian prisoners released by israel as part of peace talks with a group of twenty six breaches in the west bank by around two thousand people for a final agreement to be reached one hundred four more conflicts are set to be. for french hostages kidnapped in twenty ten have now been released in new jack the men who were captured by an al qaeda group during an attack on two french uranium phones they were freed without any type of military assault all ransom being paid. on the bus traveling from bangalore in the south of india to hyderabad bushed into flames killing forty four on board the vehicle was carrying fifty one it was said

to have hit a highway barry a over a culvert and the impact ruptured the fuel tank engulfing the vehicle in flames and according to the w.h.o. india has the highest annual road death toll in the world. all right man versus woman next a lot see we go to combat schools in ukraine thanks for watching. but . i do know that you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy but. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and oppressive and we've been hijacked trying handful of trans

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